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aru-art · 9 months

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two-headed calf by laura gilpin

#the magnus archives #tma #michael shelley #michael distortion #gertrude robinson #two-headed calf poem #god what a monster of a project this was to work on. ive never finished a comic before #im so happy its finally done #(/s) please direct any anonymous hatemail for this at my good friend @crestofcethleanns he pitched the idea i just visualised it <3 #also tim (the real one not stoker) (i will never get tired of making this joke) ilysm thanks for being my emotional support #my art #2023 #backgrounds #comics #mag 101 #mag 101 another twist #sorry the quality sucks on mobile #i am by no means a comic artist im just a silly little illustrator #so i didnt know the best way to go about formatting this but liked the idea of scrolling through the drawings :)

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johndead · 1 year

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Get clowned on

I am not immune to fan favorite episodes

#tma #magpod #the magnus archives #tma fanart #nikola orsinov #nikola tma #mag 101 #mag 101 another twist

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themagnustournament · 1 year

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Round Two Part Eight - Match 61

Oh, hello, Elias -- Can I call you Elias? It’s a Spiral showdown today with the introduction of Another Twist! Another Twist is up against Upon the Stair, which is coming in with 253 votes!

MAG 101 - Another Twist | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Michael, regarding himself.

MAG 085 - Upon the Stair | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of an unknown figure, regarding an encounter they may or may not have had in their home.

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looks-at-you · 5 months

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sorry for mass mag 101 reblogging it will happen again

#Probably now!!#Or whenever you see this #I'm probably in the tag right now!!#Rambling in tags......#the cy rambles #tma #the magnus archives #i should have a tag for this #Wait thats a tag wth #mag 101 #Another twist #Mag 101 Another twist #the distortion #the spiral #michael distortion #micheal the distortion

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clairebearsparkles · 1 year

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You know, to go with my comic!

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danascullysjournal · 21 days

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WIP of Jonathan trying to deal with The Horrors. It isn’t going well. I just hope I can get the other entities correct, they seem ok in my head but..

#the magnus archives #jonathan sims #jonny sims #mag 101 #another twist #tma podcast #tma

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shadow-the-crow · 15 days

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The Distortion didn’t like Michael as a who.

I mean, it says itself that it doesn’t want to be Michael. But the who and what thing actually brings us farther than that. It shows us his whole arc.

We all know the quote "i am not a who, archivist, i am a what." When i first heard it, i thought: Makes sense, it’s an inhuman creature, not a person, it just can’t have enough identity to be a who. Like it says itself.

But in Michael’s statement, it talks about having your who torn from your what, and replaced with another who. So it actually did have a who before becoming Michael. And it even admits that Michael also was a who, a who that became part of its being.

I think… it could just never accept being Michael. As it said, Michael Shelley was a constant reminder of its failure – the embodiment of it. The Distortion was forced to become the embodiment of its failure. To think with its mind. Of course it could never accept that. Imagine how horrible that must be – despising your own mind. (I think some people can relate to that, actually. I’m sorry if you can. I can.)

So it tried to disassociate itself completely from being Michael. To pretend it was only a what. I mean, we see that it’s comfortable with it/its pronouns as Michael, but not as Helen. As Michael, it embraced its inhumanity – not because it wasn’t comfortable with being a person in general, but with being that specific person it was forced to become. A person whose mind wasn’t made for the Spiral. Its failure incarnate.

But just before the Distortion in its Michael form dies, he ends his statement with "that is who i am". WHO. (thanks @totheidiot for pointing that out to me ^^) Michael finally got to talk about everything he had to endure. For the first time, he said the cruel truths out loud: How much it always hated being Michael Shelley. He told Jon everything, which also forced him to face the truth himself. And i think facing it finally allowed him to accept it. Accepting how shitty something is is the first step towards learning to live with it and maybe even learning not to hate it.

He could finally accept his mind. His who. Every part of himself.

And not even two minutes later, he died.

(Of course, the Distortion itself didn’t die. But its current state of existence died. It finally accepted its who, only to get it painfully torn from its what again.)

Because he got too lost in his who. Talking to Jon allowed him to be more human. But the cruel world he lived in doesn't reward humanity. It exploits the weakness that comes with it.

#yes i'm using it/its for michael while it resented its who and he/him for his last moments #because i think that's what he would have preferred lol #also i'm not linking my previous posts because i'm pretentious - it's just that all these thoughts are connected #sorry to my followers who don't like michael lmao #tma #michael distortion #the magnus archives #tma podcast #tma spoilers #tma thoughts #mag 101 #another twist #tma rambles #tma the distortion

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hezekiahwakely · 1 year

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Michael TMAs VA really put his whole mcussy into that role. So many performances in the show are worthy of praise but who else showed up, gave monologues in like, what, three episodes? and still served line reads that echo in my mind repeatedly to this day "A “who” requires a degree of identity I can’t ever retain." The condescending tone, the languid satisfaction like a fat cat playing with a mouse it doesn't have to eat, the deeply suppressed frustration and rage you can only catch in hindsight, in that line alone.

Nobody is doing it like him, nobody.

#also i was just browsing the transcripts and UM #in mag 101 another twist michaels death is labelled in the content warnings as an assisted suicide????#i mean yeah but christ dude. jesus fucking hell. i wouldnt have categorized it like that but damn youre not wrong ig #tma #michael shelley #the distortion #mag 47

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roguecanoe · 7 months

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Mag 101: Another twist

#inktober #the magnus archives #tma #mag 101 #another twist #michael shelley #the spiral #tw scopophobia #hope you enjoyed #ye!

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xelidonia · 1 year

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wait wait wait

You mean all this time, I've been misinterpreting MAG 101 in a way that makes the Archivist seem much cooler than he actually is???

When I first heard the scene where Michael dies, I thought Jon was pulling the Hansel and Gretel tactic: pretending that the death door was locked, and playing dumb to trick Michael into opening the door himself. Since the door was primed to disintegrate whoever opened it, this destroyed him and allowed Helen to take over as the Distortion. I thought this was a galaxy brain Archivist play.

But apparently not? Both the transcripts and the wiki say that the door actually was locked the whole time? Was Helen just waiting in the wings the whole time, holding the door closed but waiting to get the most fear possible out of the Archivist before swooping in and replacing Michael? Was Jon just ready to walk to his death??? Huh.

#tma s3 spoilers #mag 101 #another twist #I genuinely remembered this as a rare example of Smart Jon #of course it's the Distortion scene that makes me doubt everything

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thedeafprophet · 7 months

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my blorbo in my previous fandom did. actually canonically die 😅 so. really im doing better off with Fires here lmao

#we ignore mag 101 another twist. i was never the same (i was fine i just miss michael)#the prophet speaks

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red-akara · 2 years

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I have gotten to the part of this podcast where Michael is gonna make a statement.

Michael, the Distortion.

Michael, agent of the Spiral.